Books
- 2024 Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution. Austin: The University of Texas Press.
Selected Articles
- 2024 “Shedding Light on Labor: Photography, Archaeology, and the Making of Monumentality in Tajín, Mexico.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology.
- 2018 “(In)Visible Ruins: The Politics of Monumental Reconstruction in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 98(1):43–76.
- 2016 “Crude Residues: The Workings of Failing Oil Infrastructure in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico.” Environment and Planning A 48, no. 4: 718–35.
- 2015 “Enacting Agrarian Law: The Effects of Legal Failure in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” The Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (4) 685-715.
Book Reviews
- 2019 Review of Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu, by Amy Cox Hall. Hispanic American Historical Review 99, no. 4 (November): 767–69.
- 2018 Review of Rubble: The Aftermath of Destruction, by Gastón Gordillo. Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (August): 549–550.
- 2018 “Salas Landa on Bueno,” review of The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico, by Christina Bueno. H-Net Reviews (December).
Other publications
- 2024 “Extraction on Display: Delving into Research, Curation, and Collaboration at a Small Liberal Arts College” Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction.
- 2023 (coauthored) “Encountering Lauren Berlant: Cruel and Other Optimisms.” The Geographical Journal 189: 143–160.
- 2018 “Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part I.” Engagement (blog of The Anthropology and Environment Society). February 22.
Manuscripts in Submission
- Revised and Resubmitted “Double Exposure: Isabel T. Kelly’s Collection of Photographs of Totonac People.” In Putting Theory and Things Together, edited by J. Bell. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
- Revised and Resubmitted “The Tajin Totonac in and outside the Frame: Violence and Alterity in the Photographic Archive of Isabel T. Kelly.” In Latin American Visual Histories, edited by Ernesto Capello and Jessica Stites-Mor.
- Submitted “A Postcard View of Progress: Pemex’s Visual Propaganda and the Aesthetics of Mexico’s Technological Nationalism.” In The Aesthetics of Technology in Latin America, edited by Yovanna Pineda, Diana Montaño, and Mikael Wolfe
Manuscripts in Preparation
“Rough Topographies: Grounding the History of Oil Extraction in Mexico’s Gulf Coast.”
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